The crisis is “expasperating”: Long COVID compounds economic hardship in Argentina - The Sick Times
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Argentina is facing an invisible Long COVID crisis, marked by a lack of clinics, minimal media attention, no disability insurance to help people with the disease cope with their inability to work, and only a couple of Long COVID studies — all amid a 48% cut to the national health budget under President Javier Milei.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/51686142

Argentina has no dedicated Long COVID clinics, no disability insurance, and no government recognition, leaving patients to diagnose themselves and search for informal care.

Only a couple of Long COVID studies are being conducted in Argentina. One includes over 100 patients and involves analysis of MRI brain scans.   Patients live not only with Long COVID but also the stressful situation of living in a country with high inflation and poverty, while they create their support chat groups to share knowledge, treatments, and information.

  • T00l_shed@lemmy.worldEnglish
    101·
    4 months ago

    Whoa now, I’ve been told by people on this very platform that the libertarian government was the very best thing possible!

      • T00l_shed@lemmy.worldEnglish
        31·
        4 months ago

        Well, if you listened to the people who ignored my concerns about him, he was the messiah who came in and miraculously fixed everything.

  • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    4 months ago

    I’m curious if anyone here has experience with long COVID. My wife and I just caught COVID for the first time.

    • yumpsuit@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      4 months ago

      I do. I caught it in March 2020, yo-yoed in health for a while, and had some surgeries and a treatable cancer which my doctors suspect were related to Long COVID. I’m pretty well marinated in the info, and am happy to share whatever you want to know.

      This page from Yale is a great general orientation, though there’s a lot more LC sufferers would want you to know. This “What to Do When I Have Covid” guide from Clean Air Club will be useful.

      The best place I know of on Lemmy for a discussion is !chronicillness@lemmy.world. Mastodon has an active and expansive community of people affected by Long COVID.

      Condolences on your illness! I hope you’ll have better luck.